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Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols)

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Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also n...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

SCC to support SNMPv3

We implemented IBM Sterling Commerce as our standard file transfer service. Currently, our Control Center is sending traps using SNMPv2. Our primary interest is in being able to receive and send SNMPv3 traps as v2 comes with a lot security vulnera...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Planned for future release

Support for using NoSQL DB's

We are publishing extremely high amount of daily events and moving the data store into a NoSQL type DB would provide greater efficient and search speeds.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Future consideration

Control Center SQL 2012 JDBC URL

ControlCenter database moved to sql 2012 high availability group with cluster members on multiple IP subnets. Need to be able to modify the database urls to include the parameter muultisubnetfailover=true, i.e url=jdbc:sqlserver://sql2012clusterna...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Functionality already exists

Add parameter for Oracle DB Connection String

When operating in an Oracle custer invironment it would be useful to be able to provide a DB connection string as paramter when carryng out configCC.sh. Reason: If only IP is provided itmay happen that a DB switch in the background causes system t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Scan Listener with RAC Oracle 11g

Problem titleSCAN Listener for Oracle RAC Configuration in SCC.Problem descriptionWe are using Oracle 11g with RAC. The way our company supports RAC is using Oracle Scan (Scan Listener) which we recently learned is not supported with 11.2.04. We n...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Functionality already exists

Configuracion Oracle RAC

Problem Description: We need to configure Oracle balancer RAC for Control Center. The following configuration is working at SQL developer and Sterling B2Bi jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION_LIST=(LOAD_BALANCE=OFF)(FAILOVER=ON) (DESCRIPTION=(CONNECT_T...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration